A LaTeX document class for formatting theses and dissertations according to the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa Graduate Division Style & Policy Guide.

Current version: v2.3.0 (July 2026) — targets the October 2018 Style & Policy Guide (Graduate Division style & policy page).

• 1998 — Original uhthesis2e class by Carleton A. Moore and Robert S. Brewer
• 2008 — Complete rewrite by Mark L. Stillwell, creating the modern uhthesis class
• 2015 — Updates by Brewer for the September 2014 Style & Policy Guide
  • v2.1.0 (March 2015) — September 2010 compliance
  • v2.2.0 (March 2015) — September 2014 compliance
• 2026 — v2.3.0, updates for the October 2018 Style & Policy Guide
  • Left justification (ragged-right) per guide recommendation
  • Double-spaced abstracts
  • Widow/orphan prevention
  • Optional hyperref class option for clickable TOC links
  • Dynamic default degree year
  • \singleappendix{Title} — single appendices titled "Appendix", not "Appendix A"
  • abbreviations environment for the optional List of Abbreviations and Symbols
  • Part cover pages counted but not numbered, per guide pagination rules

Place uhthesis.cls in your personal or departmental LaTeX style directory.

• MacTeX (system-wide): /usr/local/texlive/texmf-local/tex/latex/uhthesis/
• Personal (macOS): ~/Library/texmf/tex/latex/uhthesis/
• Personal (Linux): ~/texmf/tex/latex/uhthesis/

You may need to create the directories. Run mktexlsr afterwards if your distribution requires it.

For information on LaTeX distributions, see https://www.tug.org/.

The examples/ directory contains a complete thesis example with extensive comments. Start with examples/thesis.tex. A compiled version is included as examples/thesis.pdf so you can preview the output without building.

Class documentation is in uhthesis.pdf.

A compliance matrix mapping every guide requirement to its implementation status is in reference/compliance.md.

The class is written as a Documented LaTeX source file (.dtx), combining code and documentation.

1. Edit uhthesis.dtx
2. Run pdflatex uhthesis.ins to regenerate uhthesis.cls
3. Run pdflatex uhthesis.dtx to regenerate uhthesis.pdf

Upstream: https://github.com/rbrewer/latex-uhm-thesis/

• CraigOpie/uhm-beamer — LaTeX Beamer presentation template for UH Mānoa (useful for defense talks; CC-BY-4.0)

GPL-3.0 — see LICENSE.